Sitting in the centre of this large display is a wooden figure of Arjuna, about waist high, wearing a pinafore-shaped tunic with a decorative hem. He wears a headdress with a scalloped edge.
Behind and above him are two large artworks on cloth. Behind him is a painted scene in mostly greys and dull reds containing figures while above him is a woven stylised ship on a buff-coloured background. The ship has a black hull almost the whole length of the painting and the bow and stern rise at 45° angles at the left and right. The sails are represented by dull red and dark grey zig-zag patterns above the hull.
To Arjuna’s left on the base of the showcase is a grey-coloured circular bronze drum, about 50 cm high and 50 cm in diameter, on which sits eight casts of frogs found in the Mekong area of Asia, various colours of green, grey, white and brown, and 4 sets of paired frogs that are part of the bronze drum. Above the frogs are two shadow puppets made of leather and wood and painted gold. These figures are about the height of a forearm, with pivoted joints and thin rods leading downwards to allow the operator to control them. Despite being shadow puppets, they are colourfully and decoratively painted.
To Arjuna’s right is a grey finely-textured bark-cloth jacket, its arms held wide, and to its right is a peacock mounted on a tree branch. The bird stands about 50 cm tall but its tail hangs down about a metre below the bird’s feet.
At the bottom of the case is a wide roll of cloth, woven in yellows, reds and oranges, with tassels at the end of the roll. Lying on it are, at the left, four pairs of snail shells in small boxes and, at the right, a black card with sixteen more snail shells, green, brown, white, grey and yellow. Just to the right of the cloth are four cylindrical glass specimen bottles containing white and yellowish fish, each accompanied by a piece of card with handwriting.